This is a compelling saga set in the late 19th century. As a young child, living in a small village near Toulouse in the heart of the French countryside, little Therese Daurignac had grown up listening to her father's stories of a secret inheritance. Therese had believed in those stories, even if few others shared her romantic faith in her spendthrift, unreliable father.Many years later, at his funeral, Therese looks back at her own struggles to rise above misfortune, and to uncover the truth about her father's mysterious past, especially the contents of his secret strongbox...